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CHAPTER-ONE
Installing
The importance of system administration is now a days becomes a mission critical position in
more and more organizations as computers become more and more pervasive in business.
The administrator has to understand
systems that he is responsible for
the people who use them
the nature of the business that they are used for
A key skill in administration is planning, because at the rate that systems are being created,
overhauled (repaired), and expanded, trying to improvise (create) and design a network
What Is Network And Network
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Administration?
What is network ?
A network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources
(like printers)
The computers on a network may be linked through cables or wirelessly
LAN
WAN
What is Network Administration
Network administration is the art of connecting people throughout the world, (and
incidentally connecting their computers) to get them together for many purpose.
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In small organization the roles of system and network admins is merged
together. but they have specification in large organization.
Role of System Administrator
Install , configure, update and maintain/debugging an operating system
As a network administrator, the tasks generally fall into the following areas:
Planning and designing the network
Setting up the network
Maintaining the network
Expanding the network
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assignment,
assignment of routing protocols and routing table configuration
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file servers,
VPN gateways,
Security Management
Performance Management
Planning for Growth
Fault Management and Recovery
Account/User Management
Networked Application Support
How to be a Sys/Net Admin
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Fire-Fighting:
Managing by responding to situations when they happen (Reactive)
Preventative management
Monitor network and make repairs and changes before problems appear (Proactive)
These are two opposite extremes (Most real managers combine both).
Fire-Fighting
Investigate the Fault or Problem
Capacity Planning
load generators
Benchmarks (ምልክት)
Load balancing
Hardware upgrades
The most challenge of System and Network Admin are:
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How do you find and quickly investigate the network activity of a single
user?
Quickly identifying viruses and worms on the network
Viruses and worms are, unfortunately, a fact of life for networks –
especially campus networks. How can you greatly reduce the time you
spend finding, isolating and removing viruses and worms?
Determining why applications are slowing down
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Dealing with calls and complaints when key applications start to slow down
is not fun. How can campus network administrators quickly find the cause
of the application slowdown?
Detecting rogue(fraud) systems on the network
There are likely no more diverse hardware environment than colleges,
universities and higher-education institutes. How do campus network
managers and administrators better identify and isolate rogue systems on
their network?
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THANK YOU
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